Characters
This book introduces the reader to Violet, Klaus and Sunny, the three main protagonists of the series, and the primary antagonist, Count Olaf. It also introduces Mr. Poe, Justice Strauss, the hook-handed man, the bald man with the long nose, the two powder-faced women and the person who looks like neither a man nor a woman. It contains the sole appearances of Mr Poe's wife and sons, and of the wart-faced man, an associate of Count Olaf's who is sometimes confused with the bald man with the long nose.
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“His leanings were strictly lyrical, descriptions of nature and emotions came to him with surprising facility, but on the other hand he had a lot of trouble with routine items, such as, for instance, the opening and closing of doors, or shaking hands when there were numerous characters in a room, and one person or two persons saluted many people.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)
“Philosophy is written in this grand book—I mean the universe—
which stands continually open to our gaze, but it cannot be understood unless one first learns to comprehend the language and interpret the characters in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics, and its characters are triangles, circles, and other geometrical figures, without which it is humanly impossible to understand a single word of it.”
—Galileo Galilei (1564–1642)
“For our vanity is such that we hold our own characters immutable, and we are slow to acknowledge that they have changed, even for the better.”
—E.M. (Edward Morgan)